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An ex-con was arrested after cops in Queens stopped him running a red light in the early hours of the morning and found enough marijuana in his car to get half of St. Albans high. Cops said Clement Hunter had more than 500 pounds of pot worth more than $1.5 million packed into the back of a rented white 2010 Dodge Caravan when he was stopped. Hunter had been driving in St. Albans around 4 a.m. when a pair of uniformed officers on patrol in an unmarked car saw the minivan run a red light along Merrick Boulevard and make a right turn without signalling.

The cops made a U-turn to pull him over and Hunter made a break for it. With the cops in pursuit, Hunter sped along for several blocks before turning down a dead end at 178th Street near 132nd Avenue. But he still wasn't done, the bad driving dope deliverer jumped out of the minivan and tried to run away, the cops grabbed him as he tried to scale a fence. Police finally realised why he was trying so desperately to make his great escape when they searched his rented caravan. In the back of the caravan there was roughly 10 bales of marijuana nice placed on top of each other and each weighing roughly 50 pounds.

The pot was tightly wrapped in green plastic and stuffed in black trash bags so that it couldn't be sniffed out. "It was in plain view," a source said. "You can see what it was." Hunter, who lives in Jamaica, was arrested and faces a slew of charges, including 50 counts of felony criminal possession of marijuana in the first degree, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of stolen property, officials said. Cops said Hunter had four prior arrests, all involving marijuana or other drugs, and two of which included weapons charges.